What to use for finding as many syntax errors as possible.

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2022-10-09 19:23:41 +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Am Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 06:59:36PM +0200 schrieb Antoon Pardon:
> > Op 9/10/2022 om 17:49 schreef Avi Gross:
> > >My guess is that finding 100 errors might turn out to be misleading. If you
> > >fix just the first, many others would go away.
> >
> > At this moment I would prefer a tool that reported 100 errors, which would
> > allow me to easily correct 10 real errors, over the python strategy which quits
> > after having found one syntax error.
> 
> But the point is: you can't (there is no way to) be sure the
> 9+ errors really are errors.

As a human who knows Python in many cases you can be sure. Sometimes you
aren't sure, then you leave that one for the next iteration. No big
deal. This isn't the 1960s when you sent your punched cards in and got
the result back next week. So neither the parser nor you need to be
perfect. Just better than one error at a time.

        hp

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